My Mom Eulogy

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My mother taught me many great things growing up. As most parents teach and show their children how to be successful in childhood and adult life. I am grateful to have her teach me the many wonderful things she did growing up. During the years as she still teaches and shows me how to do things, one of them has stuck out to me the most. It has been a big help to me through my adulthood. She would sit at the table, drink her diet pepsi, smoke Marlboro red, and talk on the phone. Till this day the table, is her favorite spot to sit whenever she is home. We had a basket that my mom would put all the bills in. I would go get the basket, sit down with her at the table, and that’s when she taught me how to pay the bills. We went over how to write checks, budget the money she already had, when her next paycheck would come, paying bills around her checks schedules, and balance the checkbook. I would practice writing her signature so I could sign the check exactly …show more content…

She told me to make sure that I never put anything in my name for anyone, to take care of my credit. Thankful to have the many conversations with my mom about finances while sitting at the table once again. I learned that with credit you can get any and everything you practically want. Of course, you must have money, but sometimes money means nothing. It’s a three-digit number that is like the sister of your social security number. In 2008, my sister decided to steal my car. She wrecked it into a gas pump, and my car was a total loss. Furious was an under-statement of how I felt, with no money saved to get another vehicle, and the sad part I was visiting my hometown. Finally, I made it back home still with no vehicle, my mother thought that I should just go to the dealership. I did just that and signed my name on a brand-new car that year with the credit score that I had been taught to take care

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